Archive for June, 2009

Latics unveils new brand image!

Friday, June 26th, 2009

This week, Latics Driver Training unveiled it’s new brand image, with all the fleet’s vehicles soon being branded with the latest livery.  The innovative design, spearheaded by Managing Director Claire Wilmot, was unveiled on Thursday at the Latics Driver Training office in Oldham.

Look out for all our cars throughout the area as they are branded with the new eye-catching design over the coming weeks!

Latics Driver Training's new vehicle branding

Latics Driver Training's new vehicle branding

Ric Hughes, one of the Latics Driving Instructors covering Ashton under Lyne, Glossop, Hyde and Oldham was the first to have his car branded with the new design.  Ric said, “It looks great, and all my pupils love it!  My car’s been turning heads wherever I go!”

Let us know what you think! :)

Many motorists ‘driving illegally’

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Source:  Tracy Ollerenshaw, BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat

driver_being_pursued_by_police1More than half of all new drivers banned in the first two years of passing their test don’t bother retaking it.  The law says after a ban you must re-sit a test before driving again, but many people don’t realise.

Road safety groups reckon many young people are getting behind the wheel illegally.

They’re asking courts not to send driving licenses back to banned drivers before they’ve passed a re-test.

Ollie from Essex was aged 17 and had only been driving a few weeks when he got pulled over.

“I got caught speeding,” he says, “doing a hundred miles an hour, so it was an instant ban.”

He’s one of thousands of young drivers who get disqualified every month for picking up six points or more in their first two years after passing their test.

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Tributes to road death boy

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
chris_daleSource: Manchester Evening News

TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular teenage schoolboy killed in a car crash.

Christopher Dale, 15, was hit by a car as he walked across a main road in Oldham. Police confirmed that he suffered serious, multiple injuries and was pronounced dead later at the Royal Oldham Hospital.

In a statement Christopher’s family said: “We are devastated at the loss of Chris.

“He was a wonderful son and brother who will be very much missed by all who knew him.”

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